Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Fimbristylis ferruginea

Cyperaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Poales(ordo)
Cyperaceae(fam.)
Fimbristylis(gen.)
ferruginea(sp.)

Fimbristylis ferruginea (L.) Vahl

, legitimate

, scientific

Vahl, M.(H.) (1805), Enumeratio Plantarum 2

:

291

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Scirpus ferrugineus L.

legitimate

Hooker, J.D. (1859), Introductory Essay.

The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae

:

xlviii.

[secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7

:

312

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Fimbristylis brevifolia R.Br.

legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

:

126

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

:

594

[secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

458-459

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Scirpus ferrugineus L.

legitimate

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae.

Flora of South Australia

:

92

[secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae.

Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis

:

12

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1

:

158-159

[secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition.

Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology

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204

[secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains

:

494

[secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

:

225

BHL

[secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

:

572

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

:

15

[secondary reference]

Latz, P.K. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cyperaceae (most genera).

Flora of Central Australia

:

502

[secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

:

41

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

:

26

[secondary reference]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

297, Fig. 43W

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Scirpus ferrugineus L.

legitimate

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

1077, Fig. 315H

[secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

377

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List.

Fruits of the Rainforest

:

303

[secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia

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207

[secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Cyperaceae.

Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia

:

265, Fig. 60, 62

[secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest

:

569

[secondary reference]

CHAH (2012), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Fimbristylis ferrugineum Vahl

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Scirpus ferrugineus L.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Fimbristylis ferruginea (L.) Vahl var. ferruginea

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Fimbristylis brevifolia R.Br.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Scirpus brevifolia Poir.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Scirpus brevifolius (R.Br.) Poir.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Fimbristylis ferruginea f. decomposita Domin

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Fimbristylis ferruginea var. typica Domin

nom. inval.

APC Comment: A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 2602 (1991) stated that Poiret did not validly make the combination Scirpus brevifolius. However, under Article 33.1 of the 2006 (Vienna) edition of the ICBN, this name is considered to be validly published.
APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW